HYDROMECHANICAL EQUIPMENT

HYDROMECHANICAL PROCESSES

Prof. Ing. Tomáš Jirout, Ph.D. (Phone: 224 352 681, e-mail: Tomas.Jirout@fs.cvut.cz, room 421 pavilion B1)

Courses and Practice – supporting documents

0. Introduction – basic information, content of courses, recommended literature

1. Flow in pipes, pipe networks – basic equations, friction losses, basic calculations of pipes, basis of pipe networks calculation, compressible flow of gases

2. Pumps and gas moving equipment – positive-displacement and centrifugal pumps, fans, compressors, blowers, design of basic parameters

3. Flow in porous beds – packed columns, properties and characteristics of porous bed, single phase flow in porous bed, two phase flow in porous bed

4. Filtration – surface and deep-bed filtration, basic parameters and theory of filtration, constant-rate and constant-pressure filtration, variable pressure and rate filtration, types and design of filters

5. Settling and sedimentation in particle – fluid separation – settling velocity, hindered settling, settlers (thickeners), hydraulic classification, bubbling, flotation

6. Centrifugal separation processes – theoretical background

Centrifuges – theory of settling in centrifuges, sedimentation and filtration centrifuges, design of centrifuges

Cyclones and hydrocyclones – main parameters, design of cyclones

7. Flow in fluidized bed – types of fluidization, basic parameters of fluidization, industrial application of fluidization

8. Agitation and mixing of fluids – flow in agitated batch, equipment for mechanical mixing, power consumption of agitator, blending effect of agitator, dispersing of gas in liquid, mixing of suspension

Pipelines mixing – static mixers – main type of static mixers, main parameters of static mixers

Mixing of powders and pastes

Final examination

1^st term – XX^th May 2015 from XX.XX in computer room of dept. 12118 (room No. 432) – written form see information in “Introduction”